The Environmental Protection Area (APA) Tietê, established in 1983 in order to protect its natural attributes and cultural heritage, now lives a delicate situation in its management, given that the responsibility for its administration must be shared by the Fundação Florestal, environmental protection agency of the State of São Paulo, and the cultural protection agency, the O Conselho de Defesa do Patrimônio Histórico Arqueológico, Artístico e Turístico (Condephaat). This research aimed to analyze how was the process of creating this APA and how is this management, expressing, among other problems, the difficulties of integrating understandings of nature and culture. With this purpose, we studied the situation of creation of APAs in the State of São Paulo; how that context creation involved in the management of APA Tietê, as we considered the cultural and natural attributes it complies, and the extent to which problems remain for the participation of social actors who are involved with the territory. For the implementation of the dissertation were made bibliographic; documentary data analysis of Fundação Florestal and the Condephaat; participant observation in meetings of the Management Council of APA Tietê between 2011-2013; as well as semi-structured interviews with people directly linked to the creation of APA Tietê. The results were analyzed from the perspective of public policy and allowed consideration of the process, as well as indicative of what is expected for the shared management of cultural and natural attributes of the APA in question

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